Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leads Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes for the first time in the Bluegrass Poll. A Senate vote to curb tax inversions may be coming up in the fall. And anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is planning a trip to counter-culture festival Burning Man.

Conservative groups blast House Republicans’ debt-limit plan, the meeting between Presidents Obama and Hollande may energize plans to fight climate change, what business thinks of the latest Obamacare delay, and more must-reads for Tuesday.

More House Democrats supporting an Obamacare bill the White House opposes, why Grover Norquist thinks the 2016 Republican list of presidential contenders will be the best since the Reagan era, and more must-reads for Thursday morning.

Grover Norquist is in favor of a tax hike! Well, he would say no. He has two decades or so of activism to suggest the opposite. But his Americans for Tax Reform lobbying group has come out in favor Wednesday of the so-called Plan B legislation put forth by the House Republicans that would extend [...]

Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, facing a growing rebellion of Republican lawmakers against his no-tax-increase pledge, says that members of the GOP are merely discussing their “impure thoughts” and that the party won’t cave in. “No Republican has voted for a tax increase,” Norquist said Monday on CNN’s “Starting Point.” He said “We’ve got some people [...]

Another Republican is backing away from a pledge not to raise taxes, just as Congress prepares to reconvene on Monday and dive back into talks to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.

A Thanksgiving Day comment by Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss about an anti-tax pledge he signed drew a sharp rebuke from Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist’s response was published Saturday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.